by theygamesHow do you complete the The Tomb main quest in Black Ops 6 Zombies? As we know already, each new Treyarch Zombies map comes with a huge main questline, that you can either play through on your own accord, or wait until Directed Mode is added to guide you through. The Tomb is no different.
With the arrival of BO6 Season 2 comes the fourth Zombies map, The Tomb, and a new mammoth questline continuing Maya and the gang’s story. Exclusive rewards are available for completing the main quest before Directed Mode is added, so if you want to be among the first to complete the Black Ops 6 The Tomb main quest in the zombie game, here’s exactly how to do it.
First off, it’s worth mentioning that this story is a direct continuation of the Citadelle des Morts main quest, which followed on from the Liberty Falls main quest and Terminus main quest before it. If you haven’t already, we suggest completing those first, either using our guides or BO6 Directed Mode in-game.
Here are the steps to complete the main The Tomb quest in Black Ops 6:
- Find your way to the Subterranean Temple
- Open the Doorway to Nowhere
- Obtain the Monocle
- Destroy purple crystals to trigger constellations
- Shoot symbols on the constellations
- Craft the Staff of Ice
- Shoot crystals with the Staff of Ice
- Shoot rocks in the Dark Aether
- Find the other side of the closed door
- Follow the purple orb
- Use the Ull’s Arrow to defeat different enemies
- Prepare for and trigger the boss fight
Find your way to the Subterranean Temple
As with other BO6 Zombies maps, you simply need to open door with Essence until you reach the underground area. Fortunately, this part is directed as standard, so you know roughly where to head. The doors in this map are marked with glowing red runes, and there are three between you and the Subterranean Temple. Financially, this will take you until around Round six.
Open the Doorway to Nowhere
In the Subterranean Temple, head to the sarcophagus marked by a glowing crystal on top. Simply interact with this to place the Amulet you already have from the Citadelle des Morts quest. (Don’t worry, it’s part of the story, so you have it even if you never completed Citadelle des Morts.)
This opens the Door to Nowhere behind the sarcophagus, leading to the beautiful-but-dangerous Dark Aether.
Obtain the Monocle
This is the first step to crafting the Staff of Ice Wonder Weapon. If you have a Wonderbar! BO6 Gobblegum, you can of course try to obtain the Staff of Ice from the Mystery Box. In fact, you might even be lucky enough to get it without the Gobblegum, but you shouldn’t waste too much essence trying. Instead, follow these steps to build the Wonder Weapon.
Firstly, you need to get to round eight, when an Elite Zombie, the Shock Mimic spawns. Kill it, and this Mimic drops a Monocle that you should pick up.
Destroy purple crystals to trigger constellations
When you place the amulet in the second step, purple crystals spawn throughout the map. You need to find one by the hunter wall painting, and another by the bull wall painting. These crystals swap locations when destroyed, so if there is no crystal near the paintings, simply destroy other crystals nearby until they are where you want them.
The hunter wall painting is located in the Neolithic Catacombs, and will light up like a constellation once the correct purple crystal – the one in the room with the painting – has been destroyed. Repeat this for the bull painting in the Tombs.
Shoot symbols on the constellations
For both the bull and the hunter constellations, you must shoot the glowing symbols in the correct order. Look at them closely, and you’ll see the symbols are actually alternate Roman numerals, and you must shoot them in order from one to ten (bull) or twelve (hunter).
For each of the two areas, having shot the symbols, you must defeat four waves of enemies. For each, you’re rewarded with a part of the Staff.
Craft the Staff of Ice
With these two parts and the monocle in your inventory, head down to the Dark Aether Nexus (behind the Door to Nowhere we opened earlier) and interact with the circular hole in the central wall. Here, the Staff of Ice will be crafted. This takes some time, and you must protect the Staff from enemies during this time.
Shoot crystals with the Staff of Ice
Now, you must head back to the Subterranean Temple area and shoot three different purple crystals, this time with the Staff of Ice. The trouble here is that you must shoot any three crystals but within a very brief period of time, roughly ten seconds. As such, you may want to use your normal gun to shoot crystals until three appear close enough together. As we mentioned earlier, shooting these crystals simply causes them to reappear elsewhere, so you can use this to force better spawn locations. Then, shoot them with the Wonder Weapon to freeze them. If successful, it will trigger a dialogue line from Sir Archibald Fotherington-Smythe.
Shoot rocks in the Dark Aether
Once you hear Sir Archibald, head back into the Dark Aether, where three of the floating rocks above you should now have purple glowing symbols on them. Firstly, you must take note of which symbols you see as you will need them later. Shoot each of them with the Staff of Ice in any order, and one of the four doors in the Dark Aether Nexus will close.
Find the other side of the closed door
Back inside the tomb, find which of the four doors closed. It will either be behind the sarcophagus in the Subterranean Temple, near the Stamin-Up machine, near the Quick Revive, or near spawn. On the door, there will now be eight glowing symbols. Shoot the three that match those you shot earlier on the floating rocks, and head back into the Dark Aether Nexus through that door once more.
Follow the purple orb
You now spawn in the Dark Aether Nexus near a large purple orb. Interact with this, and then follow it, staying as close as possible to the orb while surviving and killing enemies. Killing enemies is essential for charging the orb until it reaches its final destination where it was originally crafted.
Here, interact with the orb while holding the Staff of Ice to upgrade it to the Ull’s Arrow.
If you lose the orb during this sequence, it will float into the sky and disappear. Survive to the next round and head back to the door, and shoot the symbols again to retrigger the section.
Use the Ull’s Arrow to defeat different enemies
Once you have upgraded the Staff of Ice, four different powers appear on your screen with their corresponding keys. Using Sekhmet’s Vigor, you must now complete different enemy waves, triggered from different statues in the Dark Aether.
Parasite
Using the Staff of Ice, shoot the yellow crystal in the Parasite statue. Collect the crystal, and head through the yellow door. On the other site, place the crystal in the statue and survive the round.
In the round, Parasites will be charged with energy, and you must shoot these Parasites, collecting the orbs they drop on death. Feed these orbs into the statue as you go until the round is complete.
Pick the crystal back up again, and return it to the Parasite statue in the Dark Aether. For each of these steps, you can drop the crystal if you take too much damage, so try to avoid zombies on the way back. If you do, it returns to the podium, so you can just try again.
Vermin
Using the Staff of Ice, shoot the blue crystal in the Vermin statue. Again, collect the crystal, this time taking it through the blue door. Here, place the crystal in the statue, and survive a simple wave of Vermin. When the round is complete, pick up the crystal and return it to the statue in the Dark Aether.
Doppelghast
Follow the same steps on the green Doppelghast statue, heading through the green door. This round’s tough, but survive and defeat the Doppelghasts, while also avoiding the lasers and spikes on the ground, and return this crystal to its statue in the Dark Aether.
Amalgam
Yep, you’re doing it one more time, this time with the red Amalgam statue and the red door. Defeat the Amalagam, which periodically shields itself using a nearby Zombie. Defeat that zombie to make the Amalgam vulnerable to attack once more.
Prepare for and trigger the boss fight
At this point, lasers will lead you to a broken wall. Interacting with this wall takes you across a bridge to the Sentinel Artifact, and interacting with this triggers the boss fight. Ensure you and your team are prepared before you continue.
This boss fight, against the Sentinel Artifact itself, is a long one. First, there are a few phases in which the Sentinel Artifact shoots out lasers. Simply avoid these lasers as you can’t do damage to the Artifact yet. After a while, the Artifact turns purple and can take damage. Break the Artifact, and it will return to an orange color and shoots lasers again. Each time, an additional Artifact spawns in. During the damage phase, you only need to break one Artifact, but you can break more if possible to deal more damage and skip phases.
After about four of these phases, things change. Now, an Artifact is attached to a Heavy Zombie while lasers are still rotating in the central area. Defeat the Heavy Zombie and destroy the Artifact is drops while avoiding the beams. Do this twice.
Next, instead of a Heavy Zombie, it’s a Doppelghast. From here, these Elite Zombies can instakill you, so be very careful and ensure you prepped thoroughly with Perks and armor. After the Doppelghast, it’s a Shock Mimic, and then an Amalgam. For each of these, again, kill them and destroy the Artifact they drop to deal boss damage.
Now, you’re at the final stage. Fail this, and you can’t retry it without doing the whole easter egg again. All of the Artifacts now align in the center of the Dark Aether, and one will pull away, floating off slowly. This is the one you need to destroy, and you must do so before your time runs out. For all of this, including the earlier stages, Aether Shroud is the perfect Field Upgrade to have, as you can concentrate solely on attacking the Artifact and not have to worry about the enemies around you. Destroy the Artifact in time and interact with it once it respawns back in the center of the area to trigger the final cutscene and complete the quest.
BO6 The Tomb main quest rewards
The rewards available for completing the BO6 The Tomb main quest are:
- 5,000 XP
- X91 Ice-Pike Staff of Ice skin
- A Calling Card, with a unique variant available for those who complete the quest before Directed Mode is added
The steps to the boss fight are easier this time, but that BO6 The Tomb main quest boss is a real toughy. Whether you’ve manage it or not, there are plenty of other Black Ops 6 Zombies easter eggs to complete as well, including the BO6 The Tomb music easter egg, which might lift your spirits when you need it most. You should also check out what you can grab in the latest BO6 battle pass, including this season’s new weapons.